Troops facing kit crisis

FRONTLINE troops could run out of vital kit in 30 days, a damning report by MPs warns today.

Frontline troops could run out of vital kit in 30 days, a damning report by MPs warns today []

The military supply chain for equipment to British forces for operations in Afghanistan and against Libya is at “critical risk of failure”, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said.

The committee said the Ministry of Defence accepted the IT systems used to manage the complex supply chain were “not adequate for the task”. However, an £800million overhaul of the entire warehouse inventory management system will not be complete until 2014.